Links and Resources
This is a list of links to other support organisations and resources.
If you feel we are missing a valuable link or resource, please let us know via our contact form.
Audiologists
Directories
Hearing Loss Advocacy, Referral, Information and Consumer Groups
- Aussie Deaf Kids: Provides information for parents raising a deaf child
- Australian Lions Hearing Dogs
- Better Hearing Australia (Brisbane): Provides support, advice and advocacy as well as training and hearing augmentation devices and services.
- BHA Community Connect Hearing Loss Support Groups: Community-driven groups meeting locally and supporting each other.
- CICADA Queensland: Cochlear Implant Club and Advisory Association
- Deaf Australia (formerly Australian Association of the Deaf)
- Deaf Connect (formerly Deaf Services and Deaf Society)
- Deafblind Australia
- Deafness Forum of Australia
- Hear and Say: Opening worlds for deaf children
- Hear for You: Mentoring Programs and Workshops to Deaf or Hard Of Hearing Teenagers All Over Australia
- Hear-it
- Ida Institute: International organisation focusing on person-centred care, including a wide range of resources for people with hearing loss.
- RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People)
Hearing Device Funding & Subsidies
Government Funding
Hearing Aid Banks
Hearing Loss Related Conditions
Acoustic Neuroma
- Better Hearing Australia Brisbane (the Queensland Acoustic Neuroma Assn ceased operation in 2023)
Tinnitus
Meniere’s Disease
Services, Devices and Tools
Assistive Listening Devices and Hearing Augmentation (alerting, sound reinforcement, hearing loops etc)
- LoopMe by Better Hearing Australia: Permanent and temporary hearing loops and hearing augmentation from LoopMe by BHA
- Phoenix Hearing Instruments – www.phoenixhearing.com.au
- Word of Mouth Technology – www.wom.com.au
Captions
- Media Access Australia
- Ava (App): Professional & AI-Based Captions for Deaf & HoH
Telephone Services
- National Relay Service: Telephone solutions for the hearing impaired
Training and Education
Active Communication Education (ACE)
Online Hearing Loss Awareness Training
- Hear Here Online Course: Hearing Loss Awareness for Local Council Staff by Better Hearing Australia
- Hearing Loss Awareness in the Workplace Online Course: By Better Hearing Australia
Sign Language
Lip Reading
- Read our Lips: Online lip reading course
Smart Device Applications
- SoundPrint: Measure and share venue and location sound levels with the local community
- NALscribe: Easy-to-use live speech captioning tool
- Tinnibot: Tinnibot is a virtual coach that integrates treatments that we know to be effective in tinnitus management.
- Ava: Professional & AI-Based Captions for Deaf & HoH
